Several thousand of these recently discovered manuscripts are held at the National Archives in Sibiu, a pretty town in Transylvania, central Romania.
The eventual winner - to be announced on October 27, Thomas's birthday - will be expected to do some work in the form of attachments to the universities of both Swansea and Texas, where many of the writer's manuscripts are held.
Many thousands of other manuscripts are held in smaller libraries in the city or with the families that descended from the Islamic scholars who gave this trading post on the edge of the Sahara its status as a centre of learning.
Several unpublished manuscripts are held in museums, private collections and university archives, including the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, the British Library in London and the Beinecke Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Written under Brontë's pen name of Currer Bell, the manuscript is held by the British Library and is the only copy in existence.
What a disaster!" The manuscript was held by the Hüttenbrenner family for a number of years and was photographed in 1870, before being lost.
Its later story is linked with the codices Guelferbytanus A and B. Formerly the manuscript was held in Bobbio, Weissenburg, Mainz, and Prague.
There was no further financing of the manuscript, no patents related to the content of the manuscript are held or have an application pending.
In Philadelphia, the Rosenbach museum and library – home of the Ulysses manuscript – is holding a special exhibition and a series of readings, but there's loads going on all around the world, from Sydney to Austria to Lisbon.
The once well stocked library at al-Azhar was neglected, and manuscripts of Fatimid teachings that were held at al-Azhar were destroyed.
